Browsing by Level of Evidence "Historical"
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Becoming a nurse: Continuing the story of the Alexian Brothers Hospital School of Nursing graduates
The Alexian Brothers Hospital (ABH) School of Nursing in Chicago, founded in 1898, was the fifth all male nursing school in the United States. Research Question: The aim of this study is to present the oral histories of ... -
Blazing trails for midwifery care: Oral histories of Georgia's pioneer nurse-midwives
The first nurse-midwifery practice in Georgia was founded by Dr. Elizabeth Sharp in 1971 at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. The profession of nurse-midwifery expanded in the 1970s and 1980s due to the work of pioneering ... -
Blazing trails, building fences, and raising towers: A historical review of nurse-midwifery and childbirth in the United States
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: Background: The United States compares poorly among the world's nations in terms of maternal and infant mortality. Public health experts ... -
Compensation of staff nurses employed in United States hospitals from 1960 to 1990
Compensation for registered nurses employed as staff nurses in nonfederal hospitals from 1960 to 1990 was studied. Significant events of hospital financing, professional efforts to improve wages and working conditions, and ... -
Contributions of three nursing leaders to the development of registered nursing education in Jamaica, 1946–1986
The historical research design is used to document the contributions that Misses Ruth Nita Barrow, Gertrude Hildegarde Swaby and Julie Symes made in advancing the status of professional nursing education in Jamaica, between ... -
A critical examination of clinical teaching in undergraduate nurse education
Clinical education is an integral part of undergraduate nurse education. Whilst extensive research has explored roles of clinical teachers and clinical teaching, largely through perceptions of their effectiveness, little ... -
Evolution of the professional nursing organization: Development of power
The issue of power of the nursing profession has been an ongoing concern to nurses. Early nursing leaders believed that the most effective way to obtain power was through the formation of organizations for nurses. They ... -
An historical analysis of the Frontier Nursing Service: History, organization and the changing culture of care
Mary Breckinridge established the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) in a poor, rural, underdeveloped area of the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky in 1925 and in so doing, marked the first effort to professionalize ... -
A historical overview of Sigma Theta Tau National Honor Society of Nursing, 1922-1979
Sigma Theta Tau was founded in 1922 by six students at the Indiana University Training School for Nurses, Indianapolis, Indiana. The name was chosen using the initials of the Greek words, STORGA, THAROS, TIME, meaning Love, ... -
“I was working in the hospital as an orderly” the oral histories of the Alexian Brothers Hospital School of Nursing graduates
Aim of Study: The Alexian Brothers Hospital School of Nursing in Chicago, founded in 1898, was the fifth all male nursing school in the United States. By the time it closed in 1969 a total of 779 lay and religious men ... -
Ideals for nurses: A study of the "American Journal of Nursing" and "RN", 1940-1960
The purpose of this study was to examine the ideals promoted in two major nursing journals, the AJN and RN, from 1940 through 1960. A thematic analysis of both journals was conducted. This analysis revealed that the AJN ... -
The importance of a psychiatric milieu in inpatient settings
(2015-04-23)The patient experience, or patient satisfaction, is becoming one of the most important measures that healthcare systems look at when they are judging the efficiency and effectiveness of the services being provided. ... -
Leadership development as a strategy to enhance inter-professional collaboration
Background: Leadership development of maternal and child health nurses and midwives through the Maternal-Child Health Nurse Leadership Academy-Africa of Sigma Theta Tau International in partnership with Johnson & Johnson, ... -
The life history of Colice Caulfield Sayer and the effects of generational loss
The study of the life history of Colice Caulfield Sayer explored the ways in which Colice's experiences changed the lives of her family and what was meaningful to them about these events. The purposes of the study were to ... -
Missionary nurse Dorothy Davis Cook, 1940-1972: "Mother of Swazi nurses"
Dramatically absent from nursing's historical knowledge and professional recognition are the lives, roles, contributions, and legacies of Christian faith-based nurses. The purpose of this study was to investigate the ... -
Nurses, philanthropies, and governments: The public mission of Chilean nursing 1900–1945
This dissertation examines the role of nurses in Chile during the transformation of the health care system from charitable benevolence to duty of the state. The first secular nurses trained to assist physicians in 1902 and ... -
Nursing out of the parish: A history of the Baltimore Lutheran Deaconesses 1893-1911
Established by the Lutheran General Synod in 1895, the Baltimore Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouse and Training School offered a unique women's ministry in America. Lutheran women trained as deaconess nurses joined other women ... -
Obstetrical nursing clinical experiences at an all male nursing school in the 1950s
In 1956, the Alexian Brothers Hospital School of Nursing (ABHSoN), an all-male school housed in an all-male hospital, received a letter from a graduate stating that he was denied reciprocity in the State of Michigan for a ... -
The role of professional nursing in the origin of the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act of 1996 from a feminist perspective, 1981–1996
This social historiography tells the story of the origin of the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act of 1996. In the 1980s when the federal government reduced allocations to states' Medicaid programs as a cost ... -
Silenced in history: A historical study of Mary Seacole
This study sought to uncover the factors that contributed to the historical disappearance of Mary Seacole from the literature from 1900 through to the 1980s. By the late 1990s she was celebrated as a nursing pioneer and ...